Gregoire Longchambon

Gregoire Longchambon (19 May 1766-10 July 1815) was a colonel of the French Army during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Longchambon was killed during the Second White Terror in 1815.

Biography
Gregoire Longchambon was born in Nimes, southern France on 19 May 1766 to a Third Estate family. Longchambon became a lawyer in 1789, and he decided to join the local Jacobin Club chapter in response to the outbreak of the French Revolution. Longchambon enlisted in the French Revolutionary Army in 1792 at the age of 26, serving in the dragoons. He would later serve in the Armee d'Orient of the French First Republic during the Egyptian Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars, fighting at the Battle of Abukir in 1799. Longchambon supported Napoleon Bonaparte's Coup of 18 Brumaire in 1799 and commanded a dragoon regiment during the Napoleonic Wars, fighting in numerous major battles. In 1815, after the Bourbon Restoration, he was dismissed from the army, and he was lynched by French Royalists outside of his home on 10 July 1815.